Title
Tool for measuring the influence of the field of knowledge on entrepreneurial intention among university students
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Díez-Echavarría L.
Bermúdez-Hernández J.
Departamento de Ciencias Administrativas
Publisher(s)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Abstract
This paper aims to analyze a measurement tool allowing the identification of the differences that may exist between the factors and their relationships that affect the entrepreneurial intention of undergraduate students from related and non-business-related programs. This is to know what elements motivate to create a company for each group, and their degree of association, in order to design more effective educational strategies focused on their motivations. For this, a model was proposed, which was validated through the application of a self-administered questionnaire to undergraduate students of different careers, in Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano (Medellín). It was found that personal attitudes have a stronger relationship with entrepreneurial intention in students of business-related programs, while perceived viability, perceived convenience, and entrepreneurial behavior have greater weight in students from non-affiliated programs. Thus, the courses focused on creativity in the first group, and the courses focused on the know-how in the second group would be more efficient in increasing the entrepreneurial intention.
Start page
38
End page
47
Volume
28
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Otras humanidades Negocios, Administración Educación general (incluye capacitación, pedadogía)
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85079114137
Source
Periodica Polytechnica Social and Management Sciences
ISSN of the container
14163837
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